Radeon R9 290 and XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Hawaii
XG40
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
September 2003
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x Molex
Core clock speed
947 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
110 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
-
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
151.5
2.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
32 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.5
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A